Featured Titles for 2026

Children of Obscura

Dane Cervine

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 106
Publication date: April 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-939639-43-1

Random Universe

Carolyn Miller

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 96
Publication date: April 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-939639-44-8

Afterimages

Lenore Myers

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 124
Publication date: April 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-939639-45-5

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The Distant Sound featured

Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).

Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León reading on May 12

Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León's PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1, with project translators Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales. Poet, essayist, and...

Book launch & reading April 26, 2020

Please Join Us for a Sixteen Rivers Zoom Book Launch and Reading Celebrating the New Publications for 2020 Sunday April 26 at 3 PM Pacific Time With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, our April and May events to launch our new publications have been shifted to an online...

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